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 Package: survminer
 Type: Package
 Title: Drawing Survival Curves using 'ggplot2'
-Version: 0.4.8
+Version: 0.4.8.999
 Date: 2020-07-25
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Alboukadel", "Kassambara", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "alboukadel.kassambara@gmail.com"),
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+# Survminer 0.4.8.999
+
+## New features
+
+
+## Major changes
+
+## Minor changes
+
+## Bug fixes
+
+
 # survminer 0.4.8
 
 ## Minor changes